Author of Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom, published by @BirlinnBooks (UK) and @PenguinIndia (India), May 2015. Web: andrewduff.net
Joined October 2010
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Apr 24
This is a genuinely wonderful book - not just for cricket fans either - poetic insights into the nature of hero-worship, the dynamics of friendship, and what it means to play (and enjoy playing) team sports.
And beautifully edited.
Highly recommend!
Apr 24
Published today!
'A splendid collection' Ian McMillan
'Catching the Light holds enough within it to stand as a generational book: buy this volume of cricket poetry.' @WisdenCricket Book of the Month
Available now @FairfieldBooks_
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🎉 We are thrilled to share that the SLA has been granted £500,000 by the Charlotte Aitken Trust to launch our new Reading Reboot programme. The programme will deliver social book clubs in 100 secondary schools across three years. Find out more: buff.ly/WX9CWJx
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25 Sep 2025
A beautiful work from Tim Norris - form meets function to create a bird shelter timnorris.co.uk/dwell/
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7 Dec 2021
This nature recovery craic isn’t that hard once you start... quite modest changes have brilliant effects
And a lot of it is just about sensible landscape/farm design
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17 Feb 2025
This sketch makes my laugh like a drain but because of a characteristic as opposed to a punchline. That's what makes it so clever, I suppose. We quote it ad nauseum in our house.
All together now:
What, forty, forty five years??
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25 Jan 2025
I want to vomit every time I hear someone from our goverment saying we are going to be world leaders in AI.
What a crock of dangerous BS.
What about being world leaders in looking after our landscapes and nature, looking after our people, looking after our health and our diet?
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23 Jan 2025
Congratulations!
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science & Religion
Michael Taylor @M_H_Taylor (The Bodley Head @TheBodleyHead @vintagebooks)
is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025
ALT Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science & Religion Michael Taylor (Bodley Head) is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025
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18 Jan 2025
Agree very funny from @arusbridger - there will be a lot of pricking neo-pomposity required in next 4 years HT @JackMartin__
18 Jan 2025
Mark Z and Joe Rogan talked for nearly 3 hours about masculinity and shooting pigs. There are shorter Wagner operas. But there is much to digest. My column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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26 Dec 2024
I wrote about a book I call, The Man Without Philosophy. You know it by a different name.
unherd.com/2024/12/the-tortu…
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19 Dec 2024
Ofwat today unveiled the biggest water price rises since privatisation, when bills rose to fix an underfunded system and meet new enviro standards. So why do we face another crash price-rise three decades later? In this @Telegraph piece, I explain why.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12…
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16 Dec 2024
Seriously good magazine with the added benefit of not taking itself seriously - best value subscription out there - you will not regret.
13 Dec 2024
We're currently on 1,702 new subscribers for the year. Help us summit Mount Sub:
the-fence.com/shop/
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10 Dec 2024
Delighted to present @jonawils with the Writer of the Year @WeAreTheFSA Awards last Monday 👏🏽
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10 Dec 2024
No-brainer for me - pls support!
Ban the sale of Artificial Grass - Sign the Petition! chng.it/WJLT44CKzW via @UKChange
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7 Dec 2024
Why the crypto industry backed Trump: because the crypto oligarchs want billions of dollars from the US government.
@chrislhayes has the best explanation of this story I have seen youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?feature…
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5 Dec 2024
🌱 It’s #WorldSoilDay! 🌱
Matthew Elphick, #NFFN farmer at Nutfield Dairy, explains why soil health is vital for sustainable, high-quality food and a thriving planet. From boosting biodiversity to supporting yields, healthy soil is key to a better future for farming!
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13 Nov 2024
Genius is an often overused word but not in this case. RIP Frank Auerbach. Remarkable insight into the man and his art in this rare interview with @JohnWilson14 #ThisCulturalLife bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vs…
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